Unfortunately for those who attend Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newton, Ct. they now have not only seen them but will have them burned in their memories for the better part of their lives. Being escorted by police, stepping over bodies of dead classmates, trying to avoid stepping in pools of blood, and simply getting out of your schoolhouse and back to the safety of the arms of a parent--would be trauma enough--even without the violent screams of terror and gunshot that preceded it.

The innocence of a child is one of those true gifts in life.

Their ability to see the beauty in things that adults grow hardened towards is a joy that seems limitless. The wide-eyed wonder of those early years of life is something our culture seems insistent on robbing from them earlier each year. But in the face of sheer evil that wonder begins to be erased all together. When that innocence is robbed from them, the effects of it suddenly being gone--particularly earlier in life than it should be--scars will likely be left on their souls that they may never heal from.

Or so it seems...

Friday morning 20 families dropped off their babies at Sandy Hook, that did not come home with them that night. Nor will they ever again. The holes in the hearts of these families are never made whole. The pain, though it subsides over time, is never fully eliminated.

The mommies who had carefully wrapped a special present and put it under the tree with the joy of giving it to them and to see their face glow on Christmas morning, will discover that moment will forever be in want.

And all the potential of those 20 lives--mowed down as pieces of grass--will forever be withheld from the world's pool of talent. The future contributions each of these young minds, lives, bodies, and hands could create, produce, originate or innovate--society has lost.

Another particularly harsh reality that will set in will be the horrific blame-placing one parent will do to another. Why hadn't they decided to go ahead and keep that child home this morning, he or she told us they weren't feeling well? And if history is any teacher, several of these families or marriages will dissolve because of the unbearable trauma it is to endure when a parent buries their child.

God never intended that reality.

The unfiltered evil on display Friday morning occurred in "the safest place in the entire world," according to those from Newton. It is by most accounts, "an adorable little town."

Then there is the one truly at fault--the one who pulled that trigger. The heart that was bathed, lathered, and soaked in the molestation of a satanic force until it had marinated to a murderous forte, killed unrepentantly, and with no mercy for the innocent. Selfishness screamed louder than selflessness, and the results of such thinking, is a path of abject destruction.

Oddly it is that very presence of evil, and more specifically the identification of it by any who observed, that also points to mankind's greatest hope.

For evil personified can not exist in this reality or any other without an equal level of good also existing.

It's a yin and yang.

We only understand the horror of evil because of the presence of good we have also seen, witnessed to, felt for ourselves. But if evil is real then there is no need to argue anything - good must also be as well. Logic tells us this, no matter what the social engineers, veiled as university academics try to tell us in this post-Freudian age. There is right and wrong, immoral and moral, and there was no confusion about what was what this week at the Sandy Hook elementary school.

That good that is present is also an objective form of good, something elevated above all we can see,

We commonly call him GOD!

And that God knows something of the suffering those families face this day.

For he lost His son.

Not due to a lone, crazed gunman, but to an angry, illogical, dishonest mob.

Not because of the sin of one, but because of the sin of every-one.

Yours, mine, all of them.

I have no answer tonight for the one question every family member is begging an answer to. In this life, and on this earth we likely will never have an answer as to, "why?"

But I know this: God is.

He is not mocked. And as we sow, He reminds us, we also reap!

What are we sowing? Is it wisdom? Is it truth? Is it honor? Will it heal the riff between a troubled man and his mother? Will it stop anger before it explodes?

God take mercy on us, though we do not deserve it.

Show us the way home, obliterating confusion and helping to walk with clarity--in truth--a little bit more--each day!

On the other hand, emotional rhetoric from national, state and local political leaders about one disturbed individual's act which destroyed the lives and liberties of these 20 young innocents remind us that many of these leaders' ideology and policies devalue Creator-endowed life and liberty for millions of other innocents--those in the womb--for whom no tears are shed either by them or the special interest groups who elect them.

At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC on February 3, 1994, Mother Teresa stated: And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?"

Indeed, if we cannot protect the life and liberty of these smallest versions of ourselves, even with their so-called "imperfections," then Mother Teresa's words take on significant meaning.

Nothing can diminish the pain and loss which has been inflicted upon this wonderful CT community.

Political leaders who may use that loss to lead a "national discussion," however, must not be allowed to limit the "discussion" to one focusing solely on inanimate weapons in the hands of a criminal, or deranged, portion of the society. Neither can it be used to emphasize only the so-called "progressive" political view.

The "discussion," to be worthy of the tragedy which prompts it, must also include a deeper discussion on the meaning and purpose of life at all its natural stages. Mother Teresa's words are worthy of consideration.

The heart that was bathed, lathered, and soaked in the molestation of a satanic force until it had marinated to a murderous forte, killed unrepentantly, and with no mercy for the innocent. Selfishness screamed louder than selflessness, and the results of such thinking, is a path of abject destruction.

He was crazy. Once upon a time, this was considered demonic possession, because the strange thing about a crazy person is that they are entirely obsessed with themselves and their peculiar view of themselves in the universe.

I think we definitely need more moral instruction, since even people who are stark raving mad will sometimes respond to the moral guidelines around them (which we have lost), such as "killing is bad."

However, the churches (all of them, including the Catholic Church) are no longer giving ethical or moral instruction because they feel it might be intrusive and make some dysfunctional person feel bad. So even the loonies have no place to go.

Sane people don't commit these crimes: Paranoid schizophrenics do. Death demands an answer: the statists see an opportunity to deal a blow against liberty. We must do better and speak the truth: move the debate from guns to what to do about the deinstitutionalized mentally ill.

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posted on 12/16/2012 1:54:24 PM PST
by absalom01
(You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)

Are the children of Sandy Hook Elementary really any worse off than the 6-year-olds who 70 years ago in London, Coventry, Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Tokyo, Hiroshima, etc, saw their cities nearly-leveled by thousands of tons of high-explosive bombs and the fires of Hell itself?

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posted on 12/16/2012 3:27:06 PM PST
by DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)

Point 1. Evil exists, and seems part of the nature of Man.
Point 2. Crazy exists, too. Oh, I forgot, ‘crazy’ is unpredictable.

The Founders gave us the right to be at all times armed so that we could exercise our G*d given right to exercise free will. The unarmed are mere sheeple, and can not make a decision because they can’t enforce it or defend themselves against evil.

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posted on 12/16/2012 7:49:38 PM PST
by GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."..)

“The core issue lies in the sad fact that a wealthy mother with resources at her command, continued to harbor a known psychotic and violent family member instead of institutionalizing him.”

That is really easy to say. With today’s laws, it is almost impossible to get a family member institutionalized. If you can prove that they are “a threat to themselves or others,” then they can be sent to get medical help. They immediately are given drugs, and in as little as 3 days, when they are declared “stable,” they are released. Soon, decide they don’t need their meds, and the cycle starts all over again.

It is incredibly difficult to get anyone permanently “institutionalized.” It is a very short, temporary stay, at best.

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